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Last Kindle Issue?
I put all the system notifications in the System Notification style. It may not be creative, but obvious has its own virtue. I have the normal style (really “Default Paragraph Style”) configured to indent after an end-of-line (“carriage return” sounds old fashioned, even to me). I don’t tab, it just auto-indents the first line of…
Mad Geniuses
I’ve started reading it, again, now that I’m writing, again. From a post yesterday (day before?): Reading like it’s 1999. Kindle Unlimited’s monthly author fund has settled in the $50–67 million range; the first eight months of 2026 alone paid out more than half a billion dollars to authors. In August 2026 the per-page rate…
More CSS Debugging
Here’s the chain. I start with a spreadsheet. Based on AI advice (that seems sound), I paste as RTF into word processor and set the style. It’s already picking up whitespace. I have table formatting in this style. It’s the font. The export to epub. The vertical spacing has gone nuts. The Kindle version looks…
